Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

We'll have to agree to disagree. I think he's a brilliant political mind, who understands Putin better than most.

 

Don't touch his stuff. He'll kill you.

 

I think it's more his general disdain for girl parts.

 

It's a perfectly cromulent word!

 

Because lord knows ole Bobby Fischer proved that a brilliant chess mind also equals brilliance in political/real world matters, right?

 

Agreed. Perhaps the one worthwhile contribution to come from this Trump campaign may end up being the introduction of schlonged into American lexicon. Honestly, the word fits so well that I don't know how it didn't become a thing earlier.

 

Would love to know which handler told Trump to say schlonged, and why? That was drone-like politicking, specifically targeted for someone.

 

Which has what to do with Kasparov?

 

Well, I'm not sure Kasparov should be equated to Fischer in this matter.

He's been active in Russian politics since the mid 1980's. He's the founder of a Russian political party. He considered a run for the Russian Presidency, and is the chairman of a human rights organization.

He also writes on the subject on a regular basis, so it's very easy to draw your own conclusion about the validity of his beliefs.

 

Just pointing out a cautionary example. Been a long pet peeve of mine the way many people assume that because a person is brilliant at one narrowly-focused thing they must be smart at other things, when the evidence actually indicates the truth can be shockingly different, people who are geniuses at one thing are often astoundingly clueless (and sometimes downright insane) at the other things.